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by lorddoig 12y ago
An alternative point of view is that it's seriously unlikely to do you any harm and might even do you some good - not to mention that if you are the kind of person who takes vits, it's likely that changing your behaviour off the b
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by lorddoig 12y ago
> 83 points by dhruvarora013 4 hours ago I'm guessing there's a hundred neckbeards on 4chan who've been laughing hysterically for ~3.5 hours
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by lorddoig 12y ago
The truth is the UK government would be shooting themselves in the foot if they didn't enter a currency union - unless they thought the Scottish economy was a real threat to the stability of the rest of the UK, or that having Salmond&#
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Another Scot here (and a 'no' voter). Totally agree on almost everything except the 'short-term implications'. They have the potential to be both devastating and medium- to long-term. The currency issue, for example, i
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Read it again. I didn't even come close to saying that. I'm 100% pro-consumer on this one.
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by lorddoig 12y ago
> For the buyer to be informed requires only that they know what they're getting (probably this rounds to three trips for $9 in the minds of most, I'd wager) and what they're paying (clearly marked) No. 'Complete inf
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Dude. Have you even read what I've been saying? The MTA are ripping YOU off! They are thieving from you!
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by lorddoig 12y ago
The whole reason for my comment was that I thought the analysis going on here was wrong. I put forward a pretty solid case for why the chatter up to then wasn't the right way to look at the dynamics here. If we're analysing it
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Constructive! Care to elaborate on both points?
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by lorddoig 12y ago
You're right, the accountants probably wouldn't have it anywhere close to the official books. edited from previous because I completely misread the part about auto expiry.
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Irrespective of the justification - and I outlined a good one in my edit - it's definition doesn't change. Also it would be way simpler to deduct a $1 fee from the chosen amount if a new card is needed, no?
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by lorddoig 12y ago
I just looked into this. From http://web.mta.info/metrocard/mcCombinationValue.htm - > Your MetroCard can be refilled with time and value for about one year. The MetroCard Vending Machine will tell you when the car
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by lorddoig 12y ago
I don't. But if you have one of these cards and only top up using the default options as the original post describes (and I imagine most people do), it's effectively impossible for one of these cards to reach a zero balance. It
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by lorddoig 12y ago
There's a few comments here that say it only applies to tourists, because the problem is only manifest at the card's end of life: lose the card/stop needing it and that's the point you get shafted for the excess balanc
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by lorddoig 12y ago
I don't want to say this is a rip-off, but it does share a remarkable resemblance to Ted Nelson's pre-Berners-Lee hypertext Project Xanadu ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu ). Here's a recent
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by lorddoig 12y ago
I find that quite amazing. There are a few services around that talk to UK banks, and every single one screen-scrapes to get it done (yes, including MITMing your auth creds) because the banks here would never implement a public API. I&#x27
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Helpful. Are you using this in production with European banks? I saw that on one of the interactive maps on your site there's no line to/from the UK, which is hardly surprising if you are - I would be staggered if they got on boa
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by lorddoig 12y ago
I was thinking the opposite - navigates on scroll down as I expected and joy-of-joys it's in the magazine style (that has an actual name I forget), but unlike most it doesn't hijack the back button.
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by lorddoig 12y ago
I should have checked that before commenting, itchy trigger fingers I suppose. It makes a great deal more sense now.
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by lorddoig 12y ago
What's the motivation for this? Is it coming from inside the industry/is it a suggestion/fun project? I'm don't understand the purpose - it's all about transmission, not data. Banks could sure do sure do with
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Can you even begin to imagine what hell it would cause Amazon, at their scale, to be burdened with policing that? It would require a whole building full of Amazon compliance officers who won't always get it right - and when they don&#
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Although that sounds completely believable, I think in this instance it's only sharp knives over a certain length, and if I'm not mistaken I think the age 16. But never fear, HM Government will no doubt fall over themselves trying
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Take the number of times you've heard the sentiment "and this will protect consumers! yay!" - call it h (for hope ). Now take the number of times you've heard such sentiments be justified in a logical, rigorous manne
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by lorddoig 12y ago
The economics behind this is staggeringly flawed. Technological innovation increases wealth . This is a basic economic principle as evidenced by the industrial revolution (machines took over most of those old jobs, and now there's mu
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Nonsense. Opportunists are faced with the decision "Should I attempt to make a bucketload of cash, and secure my family's - and my stakeholders families' - future, or should I take a moral stance, make no money, and console m
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by lorddoig 12y ago
I take exception to being accused of delivering 'a line'. I commented, as I only ever do, when I see a truth that for whatever reason I decide to broadcast publicly. The veracity of my statement may be the source of its ubiqui
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by lorddoig 12y ago
The very idea that lobbying is a) a thing, and b) a thing that works is a failure of the political system in a massive but completely unsurprising way.
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by lorddoig 12y ago
We shouldn't blame patent trolls for acting the way they do in the same way that we shouldn't blame banks and stockbrokers for acting the way they do. If there is big money to be made, and it's legal, somebody is going to d
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by lorddoig 12y ago
The DNS resolves to 81.17.24.30 which apparently is owned by Private Layer Inc and is located in Switzerland. Private Layer's homepage ( https://www.privatelayer.com/ ) shows a selection of dediboxes, so I'm guessi
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Equating popularity with validity is a logical fallacy. Sticking my face in a steaming pile of human shit would be the most popular feature of forced captivity if my captors offered only one other option of molten lead. Laws and regulation

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